Nick DeLucci, the grotesquely deformed author of popular horror novels, lies comatose in a private psychiatric hospital. Obsessed with determining how his client came to his current circumstances, psychiatrist Tony Bralich attempts to decipher the macabre clues found in the author"s current project, The Embodiment of Evil. Are DeLucci"s novels the product of a creative but demented psyche, or the chronicles of a nightmarish upbringing in a satanic cult? Unraveling DeLucci"s secrets, Bralich finds himself trapped in a web cast by the darkest side of humanity. In a world where nobody is who or what they say they are, who can be trusted?